Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British diplomat: "You have a Cuban neurosis, and we can't be expected to adhere to your policy while you trade with the Soviet Union." Portugal has declared that treaties granting the U.S. bases in the Azores "should be rediscussed," also hints that it may recognize Communist China. Greek demonstrators, enraged over U.S. policy toward Cyprus, last week burned President Johnson in effigy, waved signs showing him in a Turkish fez, shouted "Bravo, Russia...
...keeping force for the strife-ridden island of Cyprus. But someone must have forgotten to tell the Cypriots, for guns were blazing and men dying in the magnificent green hills rising above the seaport of Kyrenia. There the slopes are dotted with villages that are alternately Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot. At the top, Turkish Cypriots hold the medieval castle of St. Hilarion. "The Greeks are besieging us, but we have enough food and ammunition to last more than a month," said an angry Turkish Cypriot student. A Greek Cypriot leader asserted with equal anger, "We could easily kill...
Bearded Return. Descended from Denmark's royal House of Glücksburg, which took over the Greek throne in 1863, Paul did not have a drop of Hellenic blood in his veins. Throughout his youth, Greece's chaotic politics periodically sent the young prince into exile. Between 1923 and 1935, he slipped back into republican Greece just once, disguised by a thick black beard and posing as a deck hand on a friend's yacht...
...years after the Greek electorate called his older brother George back to the throne, Paul married his youthful German cousin, Princess Frederika of Hanover, 16 years his junior, in an elaborate royal wedding in Athens. But royal housekeeping lasted only until the German Wehrmacht blasted into Greece in 1941. With his wife and two small children, Princess Sophie and Prince Constantine, Paul fled to Crete, then to Cairo, and finally to South Africa, where his third child, Princess Irene, was born...
...direction helps to compensate for the weakness of his screenplay. Excellent, restrained acting and careful regard for authentic detail give America, America almost documentary qualities. Some of the film's best moments are rather static scenes of village life in Anatolia, the wharfs in Constantinople, and manners in Greek households. There are fine bits of protest, too, like a glimpse of a busy American sea captain nonchalantly ignoring an aged stevedore who has collapsed under his burden. During the voyage, the faces of crew members reveal their contempt for the immigrants. The brunt of the social criticism loses its bite...